Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior – both in family size and in the spacing of births – has changed. While in the 1985 SFS family size wa...

Everyone is aware of the special relationship that man has with the coast; from the beginning of mankind, humans have been attracted to the littoral zone for the construction of settlements and the use of its resources. Subsequently, humans have evolved, leaving an increasingly large footprint on this medium. Hence, there is a need to deepen our knowledge to protect against the threat that we o...

These working notes paper present the contribution of the UPC team to the Hyperlinking sub-task of the Search and Hyperlinking Task in MediaEval 2013. Our contribution explores the potential of a solution based only on visual cues. In particular, every automatically generated shot is represented by a keyframe. The linking between video segments is based on the visual similarity of the keyframes...

A novel real-time local visual feature, namely FAST+LBP, is proposed in this paper for omnidirectional vision. It combines the advantages of two computationally simple operators by using Features from Accelerated Segment Test (FAST) as the feature detector and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) operator as the feature descriptor. The matching experiments of the panoramic images from the COLD database ...

There is an abundant literature on face detection due to its important role in many vision applications. Since Viola and Jones proposed the first real-time AdaBoost based face detector, Haar-like features have been adopted as the method of choice for frontal face detection. In this work, we show that simple features other than Haar-like features can also be applied for training an effective fac...

Slicing-Fitting-Linking (SFL) is a fast triangulation technique that guarantees building a closed mesh with consistent normals. The proposed technique can be used with diierent surface reconstruction cues such as laser scanner, stereo, SFS, and CT/MRI. The output of SFL can be in the form of STL les that are suitable for most rapid prototyping machines. The technique has three tasks. The rst ta...

We present a generic authorship verification scheme for the PAN-2015 identification task. Our scheme uses a two-step training phase on the training corpora. The first phase learns individual feature category parameters as well as decision thresholds based on equal error rates. The second phase builds feature category ensembles which are used for majority vote decisions because ensembles can out...

A semi-empirical model for surf zone wave height decay is adapted to the parabolic equation method in order to include the effect of depth-limited wave breaking in combined refraction/diffraction calculations. Several examples for plane beaches are presented in order to show correspondence between the empirical model, its numerical formulation, and previous laboratory data. The model is then ap...

An experiment tested whether people orient to and encode pictures selected from a Web site differently, depending on whether the pictures were selected by searching or surfing. Participants in the search condition spent more time selecting pictures than the participants in the surf condition spent. The pictures chosen in the search condition elicited cardiac orienting, while pictures chosen in ...